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Akshay Kumar has been doing some good movies recently but
they have been mixed with some not so good ones. How that works for his career
is not my concern, but does he draw me to the theatre is the real question. The
decision, whether I should make that trip to the movie hall, was made because
of Nimrat Kaur in the cast.
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Airlift is Raja Menon’s representation of the largest civil
evacuation in history –the evacuation of Indians who as one character in the
movie says were rendered “refugees because of Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait”.
This is one of those few movies, which has tried to show war time on ground
reality. The story is about what happens when an Indian businessman, who proudly
considers himself Kuwaiti, is faced with the horrid reality of Iraqi
occupation. The movie captures his initial inconsideration to his gradual
resolve to ensure and execute the safety of his 1,70,000 stranded compatriots.
But the story is not like your typical serious mission
movies, as one would expect.The movie incorporates Hindi film industry elements with song,
dance and sentimental scenes, to perhaps pacify the intense situation in the movie.
You’ve got your oh-i-hate-the-bureaucracy scenes, to the rise of patriotism on
seeing the flag scenes, and of course the one absolutely amazing hearted
supporting actor. But none of these bring down the movie drastically. I would
in fact dub Airlift as the guide to making Indian style rescue operation movies.
It caters to all. I literally saw the audience clapping and whistling furiously
in every patriotism laden scene.
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| source-airliftboxofficecollection.in |
The cinematography and the dialogues are dealt in a good
fashion and the casting is also pretty great. The supporting cast of Purab
Kohli , Inaamul haq , Kumud Mishra and Prakash Belawadi have all done great justice
to their roles. The way the characters are written is also pretty realistic
with our main leads initially showing their grey sides. Nimrat Kaur is
also just a supporting character, but she does an amazing job. Akshay Kumar,
the hero of the movie feels somewhat similar to Oskar Schindler’s role in
Schindler’s List, but none the less equally brilliant, being based on real life
heroes Sunny Mathews and Vedi. He essays the character convincingly.
The music is essentially there to lighten the serious plot
and is only descent.
Airlift does become one man army kind of a story, when in reality many more were involved but the creative freedom does not become out rightly outrageous. if you can get past the little Indian-ised emotional
interruptions .Airlift is a good movie with a simple yet intelligent plot and
great acting.
Watch it-
1.
For
the great Indian rescue story 2.For
the good movie making 3.And wonderful
acting.
Rating-3.5
